Gordon Technical High School - Tech Log Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Soccer “Oscar Medina sets up a pass. lian controlling the ball at midfield, the Rams played hard but patiently against Hinsdale South. Then Richard Meschbach scored the only goal of the game, and the Rams captured a dra- matic victory. After beating Nortre Dame easily 5- 0, the rams traveled to play Palatine. After falling behind 2-0, the Rams bounced back with two goals, but Palatine showed they could also bounce back by scoring more. Gordon lost 5-4. But Gordon came back from this defeat to win their first Catholic League game against Hales Franciscan by 5-0. The Rams met another tough foe, Maine East. But they made it look Uwe Pfeifer runs to the ball. easy as they beat the tough suburban team 3-0. Then Gordon raised their record to 3-0 in the Catholic League by crushing Weber and Fenwick 9-0, 4-0, respectively. Next Gordon played Main South, 4th ranked team in the state. In a co- meback victory 2-1, Gordon played one of the best games of the year. In that victory, Robert Craig’s defensive performance sparkled and Rich Meschbach proved that he was as good as any player in the state. He scored one, and setting up a penalty kick which Willie Felian booted in. In the fourth Catholic League match, the Rams lost to surprisingly strong St. Rita 4-2, and their record GT: 82-'83 VARSITY GORDON St. Joseph Evanston Niles West Willowbrook Oak Park Hinsdale South Notre Dame Palatine Hales Franciscan Maine East Weber Fenwick Maine South St. Rita St. Ignatius Brother Rice De La Salle Loyola Glenbrook South Quigley North Francis Parker Evanston a ONPF PNP OP RNY PLOWA BA ORHAN OW FPrRODOOOOORROOOOUNDOHHHOR.,. NILES WEST TOURNAMENT CHAMPS CATHOLIC LEAGUE CO-CHAMPS Bill Mendez gains control of the ball.

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24 VARSITY: FIRST ROW: Mike Zakian, Luwoo Kim, Andres Jacob, Han Kim, Danny Vlaovic. SEC- OND ROW: Mauricio Lasso, Jorge Arteta, Uwe Pfeifer, Richard Meschbach, Zoran Zaric, Robert Meiszner, Peter Mokran. BACK ROW: Phil Birch (Head Coach), Bill Mendez, Gary Ferguson, Jack Brzakovic, Robert Craig, Peter Bozic, Oscar Medina, Willie Filian (Captain), Fr. John Nowak (Modera- tor). Missing from picture: Julio Ramirez (Manager). The Kickin ‘Rams’ season started in late August with difficult practice ses- sions. The practice emphasized over- all conditioning, which consisted of grueling twelve minute runs and many quick sprints. A new part of was initiated this year, and consisted of video tapes on areas such as ‘how to play defense, ’ etc. Each player had one of the toughest soccer schedules this year. This year’s team strength was the young, strong defense led by all-stater Robert Craig. Also, scoring punches came from midfielders William Fe- lian, the captain of our team, and Richard Meschback, who is among the top twenty five offensive players in the state. This year’s team was ea- ger and ready to face many tough games coming up. The Rams kicked off to a winning start by beating St. Joseph 2-1. The Rams’ next game was against Evan- ston, who was one of the top ranked in the state. The Rams proved that they can play against a tough, phys- ical team like Evanston by tieing them 0-0. In the following week, the team was in the Niles West Tourney. The Rams’ first game was against a highly experienced Niles West. The Rams struggled because of the let down from the Evanston game, but still managed to beat them 2-1. Then at the next game, the Rams’ offense ex- ploded and beat Willowbrook 6-1. For the championship game, Gordon had to play Oak Park, whom they beat two years ago to go down state. Needing only a tie to capture the champion- ship, Rams played a tough, physical game and tied them 1-1. For the third year in a row, the Gordon Rams had come home with the Niles West Tro- phy. Then Rams got ready for a match against the No-2 rated team in the state at that time, Hinsdale South. With Robert Craig controlling Hins- dale’s explosive offense and Willie Fi- Jack Brzakovic dribbles the ball upfield.

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GT: “82-83 Soccer (ie JUNIOR VARSITY: FIRST ROW: Andy Cho, Evol Smith (Captain ), Tom Wayne Kasprzycki, Marco Lamberti, Mike Hosp, Matt Tapling, Fr. John Stancy, Steve Mun, Gary Hoffman. SECOND ROW: Steve Langbein, Jin Nowak (Moderator). Missing from picture: John Pahn, Julio Ramirez Ho, Peter Dever, Ray Peters, Tony Compton (Captain), John Morgan, Eun (Manager). Chung. THIRD ROW: Richard Dorken (Coach), Ed Verdeja, Henry Hebler, W4a' Fes NS. JUNIOR VARSITY GORDON OPP. i Glenbrook South 5 1 Maine East 0 i St. Viator 2 St. Patrick 3 1 Quigley South rey, 1 Hinsdale South 1 4 N. S. Country Chae een Gary Ferguson and teammates wait to intercept pass. 1 Loyola 2 Robert Nowak is congratulated by teammates. 0 Evanston 5 | St. Joseph 0 il Loyola 0 3 N. S. Country 1 Day ‘WON - 6 TIED - 1 LOST - 6